[Paul Crowe]

Thanks for that Ron

FYI – In Safari Navagate to desired video in Utube (or any webpage cotaining embedded av page I guess) Select activity from the Window menu look for the largest file. That’s the video. Double click on it and it will download. Then drag and drop the file into the FREE iSquint program that will make it a nice MP4 for you.

[Paul Crowe]

thanks Floh.

I knew I could count on you.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Floh, cool. didn’t know you could do that. That’s a much better way of doing it.

Does it leave you two copies? 1x conformed and 1 x original?

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Instead of export/import try just changing the video input settings in your current 16:9 project to 4:3 then opening a new timeline (which should then be 4:3). Just ‘select all’ and drag everything into the new timeline. It’ll give you the conform options before it completes the operation.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Hi Scott

thanks for your input.

Call me a pedant, but I don’t trust the flimsy connections with firewire and generally speaking I’ve found it pretty unreliable. So I’ll check out the Fibre Channel and ULTRA SCSI G-tech products you suggested.

My other irk with FW…is it just me or is threre a lag time that is specific to FW(800) in terms of things like tabbing through frames on the time line etc. In the old days when I had the Medea SCSI when I tabbed the arrow key through the timeline the response was instant and I mean instant 0 lag time – I hit the button and the frame updated. Great for when your tightening up those fine cuts – pinching frames here and there.

But now with the firewire drives theres’s a mini delay. I’ve almost got used to it – but when I think about how reponsive the old drive was it annoys the hell out of me. However I’m not absolutely sure this is purely a FW thing,

Do anyone know this evil of which I speak? Is this a firewire thing?

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Right I see.

i’m 99.9% certain DVDSpro only comes bundled with the rest of the suite.

However Adobe do a bunch of different bundles and I pretty sure you can get their DVD Authoring program ‘Encore’ seperately from the rest of the creative suite. That might be worth a look.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Do you mean no other way to burn DVD’s ? Or Author them?

If it’s the former. You could use toast.

If it’s the later. You could use iDVD to author (never used it myself) it has far less features than DVDSP but comes free with your mac.

Otherwise, it’s probably fair to say that DVDStudio Pro is the most popular, cost effective, flexible and ‘feature rich’ way of authoring DVDs on a Mac (shit I’m sounding like the Mac website here!).

You can do some pretty basic authoring stuff in toast as well though.

Hope that’s helpful

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Hmm, with some of the clients I’ve had lately…that’s sounding like a great idea!?

[Paul Crowe]

Yes it was a codec thing. Once I exported the movies out as QT and set the fields properly, as you suggested. The final DVD looked fine. Thanks again Floh. Don’t know what we’d do without you.

Cheers
Tankboy

[Paul Crowe]

Hi Floh

thanks for you comments they’re most appreciated.

Good thinking about the mixed codec thing. It could well of had an impact on this project. I’ll go back through the work flow.

Cheers
Tankboy